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Charter’s gigabit cable with no data caps is ready for 27 million homes
Enlarge / Charter’s Spectrum Internet Gig rolled out to these new locations in June 2018. (credit: Charter)
Charter’s gigabit Internet service launched to another 4 million homes this month, and now more than 27 million homes in Charter’s territory can get the ISP’s fastest offering. Charter is aiming to make the “Spectrum Internet Gig” service—with actual download speeds of up to 940Mbps—available to nearly all of the homes in its cable footprint by the end of this year.
The current 27 million home deployment is “more than halfway to our goal of making gigabit connections available to virtually our entire 41-state footprint,” Charter, the second largest US cable company after Comcast, said in an announcement last week. “By Labor Day, we’ll be rolling out to even more cities to get closer to that year-end goal.”
Charter’s cable network extends to about 50 million homes and businesses across the US. Prices for the gigabit service have ranged from $ 105 to $ 125 a month; DSLReports notes that the cost for consumers “var[ies] slightly depending on local competition.”
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Comcast planning nationwide gigabit broadband in 2 years. What will it cost?
A Comcast executive says the company is currently testing technology based on the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which can transmit data at rates up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) in ideal environments, and is aiming to deploy the technology on a nationwide basis by 2018, according to a Fierce Cable article published last week.
Comcast vice president of network architecture Robert Howald told Fierce Cable that the technology will enable the company to offer customers broadband speeds of 1 Gbps “and higher.” From the article:
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Inside the bold plan to bring gigabit fiber to Detroit
When discussing the ongoing revitalization efforts in Detroit, it’s hard to miss the name Dan Gilbert. The founder of Quicken Loans, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a Detroit native himself, Gilbert’s investment firms have funded dozens of tech startups in the city and turned its defunct old buildings into shiny new workspaces that look like Silicon Valley transplants.
Until last year, what Detroit lacked in this daunting task to become a tech hub was access to affordable, high-speed broadband, the kind that Google Fiber was famously bringing to other cities around the country. So, rather than pray for Google to arrive or incumbent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to spontaneously change their pricing and services, Gilbert invested in two Quicken Loans employees who were crazy enough to suggest building a fiber network themselves.
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